ddwebb

Thank you. I was hoping for a good result and someone to come back and say do
this or that and it will be all better now.
I know the worse case is I do the Converto to Basic Disk and start over, the
data that was being backed up to this drive is a-okay so I can recover and
start over but I have 2 other computers that I want to make sure I understand
what is happening before I convert them over.

"Ryetronics" wrote:

> Doug,
>
> This happened to me as well. I ended up dumping all the data on an
> external drive for backup, then converting to Basic. I posed the same
> question to a number of forums and never received a response, but
> after some lengthy research via Google, I came to the understanding
> that having Dynamic drives just limits what you can do with it. All
> of my drives are Basic now, they work the same as they did before, and
> all are compatible with Vista.
>
> So I hope you have a spare HD for backup purposes lying around,
> because if you do convert to Basic, you will lose your data.
>
>
> On Feb 26, 11:11 am, ddwebb <ddw...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Ok, confused.
> > I put Vista on my system that was running XP and I had 3 internal hard
> > drives. 2 showed just fine and the 3rd which was used for backup was not to
> > be seen. Look into the Disk Mgr and I can see it but when I right click on
> > it, it gives me the option to Convert to Basic Disk, Properties and Help.
> > I dont really want to loose the data that was/is on that drive and if I do a
> > Convert to Basic Disk, wont that loose the data?
> > What actually is Convert to Basic Disk mean?
> > My other 2 drives are Dynamic drives.
> > So what is the difference between a 'Basic Disk' and a Dynamic disk?
> > I have sent a question to Western Digital to see if then have drivers that I
> > missed on their site to add to enable the drive rather than wipe it out, so
> > far they have not responded.
> > doug.w...@qwest.com
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